Ned R. McWherter Library
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The Ned R. McWherter Library is the main academic library at the University of Memphis, named in honor of former Tennessee governor Ned McWherter.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ned R. McWherter Library canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9658942 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ned R. McWherter Library Context triple: [Ned McWherter, hasHonor, Ned R. McWherter Library]
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A.
J. Murrey Atkins Library
J. Murrey Atkins Library is the main academic library of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, serving as the campus’s central hub for research resources, study spaces, and scholarly support services.
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B.
B.D. Owens Library
B.D. Owens Library is the main academic library of Northwest Missouri State University, providing students and faculty with research resources, study spaces, and information services.
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C.
Hutchins Library
Hutchins Library is the main academic library of Berea College, supporting the college’s teaching, learning, and research with extensive collections and study resources.
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D.
John C. Pace Library
John C. Pace Library is the main academic library of the University of West Florida, providing research resources, study spaces, and archival collections for students and faculty.
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E.
John C. Hodges Library
John C. Hodges Library is the main academic library of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, serving as a central hub for research, study, and scholarly resources on campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ned R. McWherter Library Target entity description: The Ned R. McWherter Library is the main academic library at the University of Memphis, named in honor of former Tennessee governor Ned McWherter.
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A.
J. Murrey Atkins Library
J. Murrey Atkins Library is the main academic library of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, serving as the campus’s central hub for research resources, study spaces, and scholarly support services.
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B.
B.D. Owens Library
B.D. Owens Library is the main academic library of Northwest Missouri State University, providing students and faculty with research resources, study spaces, and information services.
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C.
Hutchins Library
Hutchins Library is the main academic library of Berea College, supporting the college’s teaching, learning, and research with extensive collections and study resources.
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D.
John C. Pace Library
John C. Pace Library is the main academic library of the University of West Florida, providing research resources, study spaces, and archival collections for students and faculty.
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E.
John C. Hodges Library
John C. Hodges Library is the main academic library of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, serving as a central hub for research, study, and scholarly resources on campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic library
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human ⓘ public university ⓘ |
| affiliation | University of Memphis ⓘ |
| city |
Memphis
ⓘ
Memphis ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| function | main academic library of the University of Memphis ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Memphis, Tennessee
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linked to:
Memphis
University of Memphis ⓘ |
| name | Ned R. McWherter Library ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Ned McWherter ⓘ |
| namedForOfficeholder | Ned McWherter ⓘ |
| namedForRole | former governor of Tennessee ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of Tennessee ⓘ |
| state |
Tennessee
ⓘ
Tennessee ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Ned R. McWherter Library Description of subject: The Ned R. McWherter Library is the main academic library at the University of Memphis, named in honor of former Tennessee governor Ned McWherter.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.